10.—(1) The procedure for starting and conducting a mediation session at a Community Mediation Centre is to be determined by its Director.
(2) Mediation sessions must be conducted with as little formality and technicality, and with as much expedition, as possible.
(3) The rules of evidence do not apply to mediation sessions.
(4) A dispute may not be adjudicated or arbitrated upon at a mediation session.
(5) A mediation session must be conducted in the absence of the public, but persons who are not parties to a mediation session may, with the permission of the Director and the parties, be present at or participate in a mediation session.